Focusing on Washington Trout's zeal to close hatcheries speaks for itself. I have said over and over again that reforms are needed but I have also said that I do not believe that WT wants reforms but all out closures which would be a victory for them but a loss for sports fishing in general. I think that groups like Long Live The Kings have a much more proactive plan for hatchery reform than WT. What I don't care for is WT's tendancy to conceal things and say what their audience wants to hear instead of straight shooting. This is what politicians do and it is effective in sucking in people to the cause who would otherwise not support it. There are lots of EX WT supporters who finally realized that WT is more of an animal rights extreme organization with a super narrow agenda than an organization working for any kind of sports fishing cause. So sports fishing people working on hatchery reform and habitat restoration and harvest and hydro issues don't see WT as being on the same team.

That is not to say that WDFW doesn't have some explaining to do and alot of ground to cover.